[스포츠한국 이정철 기자] Seo Jun-won (23), who is accused of sex crimes with a minor, was stripped of the ‘High School Choi Dong-won Award’.
On the 27th, the Choi Dong-won Memorial Project Association said, “The board of directors and all members of the business association were greatly shocked by the judgment that Seo Jun-won’s actions were so serious and anti-humanitarian.” We have decided to revoke the Choi Dong-won Award.”
Seo Jun-won played an active role as an ace in Gyeongnam High School with a fastball that exceeded 150 km per hour. Eventually, in 2018, while attending Gyeongnam High School, he received the 1st High School Choi Dong-won Award and wore a Lotte uniform as the 2019 1st nomination.
Seo Jun-won has since been active on the professional stage as Lotte’s best pitching prospect. However, in August of last year, he was indicted without detention on charges of producing sexual exploitation of children and adolescents by having him take and send body pictures of minors he met online.
It is said that Seo Jun-won did not inform the Lotte club of this fact while being investigated by the police and prosecutors. In the end, on the 23rd, following confirming that Seo Jun-won was charged with sex crimes once morest a minor, Lotte released Seo Jun-won.
Then, the Choi Dong-won Memorial Association stripped Seo Jun-won of the award. It was also decided to erase it from the list of past winners. Meanwhile, Seo Jun-won recorded an average ERA of 5.56 with 15 wins and 23 losses in 123 games in his professional first team.